The Dickinson press., 1887-10-08
RRlEE Items oE NEWS.

Gladstone has decideded to make his
Irish policy known in the near future.
A race between the Thistle, Puritan,
Priscilla, Atlantic and other sloops is
talked of.
Commissioner of Education Dawson in
his report says there are $4,000 school
children in Alaska.
Spalding refuses to allow Detroit and
st. Louis to play Il worlds championship
game on the Chicago grounds.
The building trades of Chicago have
decided to strike next Monday If scab
workmen are employed on the Hayu,ar-
ket heater
The Mississippi Water Power and 30 ON
company'S logs that were run out of Pine
river are iammed on the Rabbit rapids,
twelve miles above Brainerd. Teams
have been sent up to haul them over.
Hon. NJ. V. Miller, president of the
the board of regents of the Dakota agri-
cultural college at Brookings, who re-
Gently disappeared. had none of the col
lese money in his possession, as at first
reported.
Louise Michel. the famous French
communist, has become insane. and is
hooted and ill-trcatcd when she attempts
to speak, and the publishers refuse to
print her books. AS her pen and tongue
have both failed her. she is likely to
Sturve.
James Redman, prominent lumbrrmun
of Chippewa Falls, Wis, was killed by II
falling tree while experimenting Il camp
near Phillips. He leaves Il wife and
family.
The collector of internal revenue at
Chicago. as custodian of the government
building. has determined to decorate that
establishment during the encampment at
delphia for flags for the purpose.
There is Il vacancy in the office of Amer
lean consul at Stuttgart. Mr.. Charles p.
Kimball. of Chicago. who has held the
place. sent his resignation to Secretary
Bayard. and left for home. The salary is
Sl.)W II year. and work enough for health
full exercise.
y big billiard tournament between
Sexton, Slosson, DAILY. Carter. and Shurf-
fer has been arranged. The match is to
be played in two series. the first in New
York i'll November. and the second in
Chicago in December. The game will be
Corra has appointed Il minister to the
United States.
.AdviceS from Yokohama ND to- Sept. o
announce the arrival at that place of en-
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago.
The New York Yacht club will honor
Gen. Paine. owner of the Volunteer, by IL
grand reception. The members of the
club are wild over the performance of the
Volunteer. and think there is nothing too
good for lis fortunate owner.
Drivers and conductors on two street.
car lines in Detroit. discharged for theft,
caused Il serious riot by attacking the
new men, and causing the horses to run
away.
Work on the Dulsth harbor for the
season has been stopped. The total
amount of material %eXcuvutcl was 235,-
::22 cubic yards.
The ! OMo-milc bicycle race from !3os-
ton to Chicag: has been abandoned. The
race was to have been participated in by
ten or twelve representative whcclmcn,
and all the principal American machines
were to be represented.
MI the railroads have agreed to special
rates varying from II and one-tllird to
one and one-tifth cents per mile during
the last week of the Minneapolis EXPOSE
tion, which commences Oct. II and ends
Oct. 10. These days will include presi-
dents day. woman's day, labor day, and